Today was a welcomed break from all the activity. The only thing we had planned was for Nicole and me to goto a Friends of the Library book sale at the convention center here in Estes Park this morning. The sale was HUGE! We found many books and a couple of DVDs so the kids have something to read. She and I also went by the grocery store to stock up on a few itesm. While we did that, Tim and the boys had an extended devotional time, and then straightened up the camper while Tim did various maintenance jobs around the place. Once we got home with the books, there was a long period of reading and relaxing - a very quiet camper with 6 people in it! :-) Nicholas decided to go swimming (they have a pool here) but was back pretty shortly - it was a little nippy! I think the high here only got to be in the upper 60's. But with the sun shining, it felt GREAT - we had the windows opened and the cool breeze blowing through here all day. Nathan and I made a salad for dinner, and Tim did the rest. He made cheese eggs (a Saturday night tradition) but also used the grill here at our campsite and made salmon over it! Yummy! We tossed in some leftover couscous from a previous meal, heated some frozen corn, and we had quite the scrumptious dinner outside our camper on the picnic table. Then it was time for s'mores - oh my! You'll see pictures of that below! It was getting close to 8pm by the time we were done, and we wanted to see if we could find another herd of elk for the kids to see, so we hurriedly tossed everything into the camper from the picnic table, and drove down the hill to where we saw the elk last night. No luck there, so we drove on into Rocky Mountain National Park, and not a mile into it we saw a black bear making his way alongside the very mountain we had climbed yesterday! It was too far away to get any good pictures of him, but he wasn't too far away at all for us to see him plainly - very cool! We snaked our way back into Estes Park with only a few deer sightings (no elk), and came back home to clean up from the hurried departure. One of the books I got today was an all time favorite of mine called The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas. I remember reading it one summer when I was home from college, having checked it out from our local library. I had been thinking about that book over the past couple of days, and had just told Nicole I thought she would like to read it when we got home and she could check it out from our local library. So now, she won't have to wait for that, but she'll just have to wait for me to finish it because I started reading it again! No matter, she has plenty of other books now to keep her occupied. The most sought after book by the triplets that we brought home was '90 Minutes in Heaven' by Don Piper. I had actually gotten that for me because a friend of mine had recommended it to me years ago and I had never taken the time to get it to read it. Well, Nathan read it, and then Noah, and Nicole would have finished it if we had let her but it was bed time so she'll have to wait until tomorrow. It's over 200 pages, too! I love having voracious readers! As a result of our uneventful day, I don't have many pictures. Pictures of people reading aren't typically the most exciting in the world, so none were taken of that. We did snap a few at dinnertime, especially of the s'mores! Enjoy! Tomorrow we go to Denver - probably our shortest trip to date! Hope everyone has a great Sunday!

Tim & Jodie

Tim and Jodie have been married since Nov. 5, 1988. Tim is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and retired city of Tampa Firefighter. Jodie is a happily laid off IBM/AT&T 21 yr veteran employee turned stay-at-home home-schooling mom (say that fast three times!). She works very part-time for a local Christian author and speaker. They have four wonderful children: triplets Nathan, Nicole, and Noah born 11/16/97 and Nicholas born 5/16/99.